From: Wolfgang Schuster <schuster.wolfgang@gmail.com>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: frames for left/right pages
Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2016 12:47:08 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <57FB71AC.7020709@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ba51dfec-74a5-0494-64b3-ca51a25f7873@uni-bonn.de>
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> Thomas A. Schmitz <mailto:thomas.schmitz@uni-bonn.de>
> 10. Oktober 2016 um 12:13
> Hi,
>
> I have a wish list for independent frames and would like to know if
> this is possible in ConTeXt:
>
> 1. left and right pages in a doublesided document have frames with
> independent text flow, i.e. the text from p. 2 continues on p. 4, from
> p. 3 on p. 5, etc. The frames are regular frames and can have
> backgrounds, borders, etc.
>
> 2. After a couple of pages, these frames end. Below them, the text
> flows normally, i.e. begins below frame on p. 6 and continues below
> frame on p. 7.
>
> 3. Since I want to take my data from xml, the content of the frames
> will be taken from buffers.
>
> So this would give, in pseudo-code:
>
> \starttext
>
> \startleftrightbuffers
> \leftframe{\getbuffer[left]}
>
> \rightframe{\getbuffer[right}
> \stopleftrightbuffers
>
> Here, the normal text begins, it will flow below the frames...
>
> \stoptext
>
> Is this possible? How would I code that?
Are you looking for streams, the mechanism Hans added for you years ago?
Wolfgang
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